There’s a real fusion afoot.

Happy National News Engagement Day! Today is the day that our forefathers Jesus Christ and Albert Einstein set aside for Engaging With The News, when they met with Napoleon on Elba and determined the International Schedule of Bogus Holidays by which we still plan the bogus days and weeks of our bogus lives. David Carrengaged with the Washington Post, giving them a pat on the back and a really nice certificate for still existing:

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Great Jeorb!

Adrianne Jeffries is engaging with VICE‘s Motherboard, which is a big loss for The Verge. NYC phone booths have been engaging with your phone for a few months, which partly explains why phone booths even still exist. A few hours after the Buzzfeed report, the city said “lol whoops” and ordered them removed so they can be reinstalled within weeks after a token “review” process. #Brands are engaging with Ello, so I’ve already moved to Owdy.co, the only social network that “doesn’t let content get in the way of what truly makes for a good social experience: rushing to get your username before everybody else.”

There’s not much more elegant than Zadie Smith writing about Manhattan, especially when she’s using a Corona ad in Soho as her way into the island’s psyche. “Find your beach,” she says:

There’s no way to be in good faith on this island anymore. You have to crush so many things with your mind vise just to get through the day. Which seems to me another aspect of the ad outside of my window: willful intoxication. Or to put it more snappily: “You don’t have to be high to live here, but it helps.”

This weekend I went to a friend’s housewarming party. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon affair on a Brooklyn roof; people trickled in, ones and twos laughing and joining together to form groups little and large. I’ve always thought of roofs as a cousin to beaches—there’s no sand, but you can enjoy the view forever—and this one was particularly nice. We spun around and around that day, but still couldn’t spot Manhattan.

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